novelty value of a partner’s knowledge, and the disadvantage of less mutual understanding. If the value of learning is the … agreements between pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies, as well as on interfirm agreements in ICT industries. …

the location of ICT firms decision. Furthermore, many high-tech companies shape clusters around areas where their major … Internet and ICT technology. A dynamic model previously developed for the analysis of ICT-entrepreneurship and networking will … be applied to make a critical analysis of five ICT-clusters in the Netherlands and Flanders (Northern part of Belgium …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the … strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional services industries, however, established firms … that exploited their knowledge accumulation by adding exploitative consulting practices have found their performance has …

speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this …

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market … discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project … knowledge contributed to the failure of those NBD-projects that required new market knowledge as well. The findings indicate …

on both the tie strength and knowledge literatures, we theorize that embedded ties interact with supplier and customer … innovation knowledge to influence supplier innovation. In a sample of 157 Dutch business-to-business innovation relationships, we … observe that embedded ties weaken how much suppliers benefit from customer innovation knowledge due to worries about customer …

This article addresses the emergence of networks of practice and the role of knowledge sharing via knowledge portals …. Its focus is on factors that stimulate the successful emergence of networks of practice. Literature on knowledge … management and communities of practice suggest the preexistence of shared knowledge or a shared believe system as a condition …